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How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life…How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life…
How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Rob. Gibs, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And on the other side, too many make Laws of Love and Communion to themselves, and confine Christs Church with their little various and perhaps erroneous Sects. And all others they Love with pity, but only those of their Cabin and singular opinions, they love with complacency and communion; those that condemn such as Christ justifieth, and say that Christians are not his, are near of kin to one another, tho one sort show it by Persecution, and the other but by Excommunication or Schismatical ⟨p. 24⟩separation. We are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 4. 28. And therefore I advise all Christians to hate the causes and ways of hatred, and Love all the causes and means of Love. Frown on them that so extol their singular sentiments, as to backbite others, and speak evil of what they understand not: Especially such as the Pamphleteers of this Age, whose design is weekly and daily to fight against Christian Love, and to stir up all men to the utmost of their power, to think odiously of one another, and plainly to stir up a thirst after blood: Never did Satan Write by the hand of man, if he do it not by such as these: The Lord of Love and Mercy rebuke them.
And on the other side, too many make Laws of Love and Communion to themselves, and confine Christs Church with their little various and perhaps erroneous Sects. And all others they Love with pity, but only those of their Cabin and singular opinions, they love with complacency and communion; those that condemn such as Christ justifieth, and say that Christians are not his, are near of kin to one another, tho one sort shew it by Persecution, and the other but by Excommunication or Schismatical ⟨p. 24⟩separation. We are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 4. 28. And therefore I advise all Christians to hate the causes and ways of hatred, and Love all the causes and means of Love. Frown on them that so extol their singular sentiments, as to backbite others, and speak evil of what they understand not: Especially such as the Pamphleters of this Age, whose design is weekly and daily to fight against Christian Love, and to stir up all men to the utmost of their power, to think odiously of one another, and plainly to stir up a thirst after blood: Never did Satan Write by the hand of man, if he do it not by such as these: The Lord of Love and Mercy rebuke them.